Posted on 07/12/2004 6:33:46 PM PDT by sc2_ct
The National Lawyers Guild, founded in 1937, is an association of lawyers, law students, legal workers and jailhouse lawyers dedicated to the proposition that human rights are more important than property rights.
The Mass Defense Committee of the NLG-NYC Chapter, which has been providing legal observers and lawyers for activists since 1968, is proud to offer its depth of experience and knowledge to activists organizing events surrounding the Republican National Convention this summer in New York City. We can be contacted at:
Mass Defense Committee
National Lawyers Guild, New York City Chapter
143 Madison Avenue, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
(212) 679-6018
(212)679-6178 (fax)
nycmassdefense@riseup.net
The Committee is coordinating its efforts to provide RNC Mass Defense legal support with the Peoples Law Collective, the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the New York Civil Liberties Union.
ATTORNEYS
We are actively recruiting lawyers to provide pro-bono (free) legal representation. Ideally, we will find enough pro-bono lawyers to represent everyone who may be arrested at protests during the Convention. However, given the possibility of unprecedented numbers of arrests, we cannot guarantee we will be able to recruit enough lawyers to volunteer. That is why the Guild is also recruiting lawyers who would be willing to provide legal representation at low bono (substantially reduced) rates. In light of this, activists may want to make some contingency legal defense fundraising plans.
If you are a lawyer interested in helping out, please download our Attorney Questionnaire (PDF format), and mail or fax it to:
RNC Mass Defense
National Lawyers Guild, New York City Chapter
143 Madison Avenue, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Fax: (212) 679-6178
If you are a lawyer and are interested in helping, but you do not have criminal defense experience, we will be offering CLE trainings this summer. Fill out and send us the our Attorney Questionnaire (PDF format) and watch our Calendar for upcoming trainings.
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Some might become victims of real terrorists.
"Dean really moved the Democrats left and they have taken that shift and gone even farther and further out of the mainstream. Now they are in full meltdown"
Good! By election time they will be butter in our hands
.........VERY BIG GRIN...........
There are times when all the worlds asleep and questions run too deep. Dems ask, "please tell us who we are."
FYI ping.
Are you kidding? Well, I am sure you are not; nobody could make that crap up.
God help us all.
(FOX when are you going to get your act together on your website?!?!?)
There might be a transcript available. Brian Wilson hosted the program.
the RNC needs to start tying this to Kerry now. They should call on Kerry to denounce this, and to call for these violent protestors to stand down, that only peaceful protests are acceptable. Call him on this now, let's see if he has the courage to say something.
How idiotic. There are no human rights without property rights. It's like saying: "human life is more important than air."
Actually the info first came out on Fox&Friends this morning and it ran again on Brits show. Another thing covered on the Fox&Friends segment was the disruptors are to throw marbles on the ground so the horses the police officers ride would have a hard time chasing down the disruptors.
Where's PETA's indignation about all this??
Prairie
Mixing "in" with the terrorists might not be too healthy.Hate to see any good guys get hurt unless absolutely necessary.
You can make a difference. I survived the LA riots. These people are pure cowards. Go ahead and confront them. Shame them. It's like pouring water on the Wicked Witch of the West.
Why not just cancel the convention, we really don't need one, and it would really make NYC mad at the anarchists for stoping it, they would loose a lot of money to these idiots. It would not be caving in, just outsmarting them. Do it online. Think about it RNC.
Just take pictures. Nice clear 35 mm or VHS pictures and then when the time comes turn them into the proper authorities.
I work in midtown and I'll be bringing a couple of fists if any of those maggots get in my face. I will take no prisoners.
I won't be in NY for the convention. In some ways wish I was and in others...not. But there are FReepers who will be there.
Prairie
"On Brit Hume's Special Report tonight, there was a brief segment on Dem activists advocating rubbing themselves down with gun powder and situating themselves in the subway and places near Madison Square Garden, so they would throw off bomb sniffing dogs and create havoc "
...and I'm going to be one of those right wing nuts throwing lit matches at thier nappy heads...talk about fireworks!!!
Just the fact that you're taking pictures will curb a lot of this.
"Fury at Anarchy Convention Threat"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1169616/posts
Is there any way that images could be uploaded live to the internet? That way, no matter what happens to the camera, the pictures are already out there.
To my mind, they are just as much hate-filled terrorists as the Islamists. And the lawyers they rode in on as well.
Bump. Essential info here.
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